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Premonition
The eye-of-the-storm in Dominic Angerame's "City Symphony" series, PREMONITION occupies the ghostly interval between the Loma Prieta earthquake and the resulting demolition of San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway. The abandoned highway is an apt figure for the imagination of disaster,...Watch Movie
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A Ticket Home
Going home, from west to east; return. Part of a series of turning points. Recording a journal in color language; shadows of faces. Realities and memories come out frame by frame. The rhythm of a summer vacation. Rituals of light to dark, manifesting form. This is a translation of old friends and...Watch Movie
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Honeymoon in Reno
Director Dominic Angerame was hoping to strike it rich on his honeymoon in Reno. In a way he did, seeing that his camera was filled with very rich imagery in recording this visual journal of his brief visit to Nevada. The soundtrack is a creation of Katie Steinorth who...Watch Movie
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I'd Rather Be in Paris
I'D RATHER BE IN PARIS depicts the filmmaker's visual concern with his physical environment by autobiographically exploring his alternatives: Chicago, San Francisco and the editing room itself. These urban explorations tend to concentrate on high-speed assemblages of cityscape...Watch Movie
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The Soul of Things
William Denton is one of the early pioneers exploring the art and science of psychometry. Psychometrics believes that every object emits a field of energy. That energy can transit its entire history through touch. That is every brick contains the history of what happened...Watch Movie
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In the Course of Human Events
From the moment we see a wrecking ball crashing through San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway, it is clear that IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS will not comply with the progressive view of technology and history advanced by the classic city symphonies of the 1920s. By focusing on...Watch Movie
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Continuum
In CONTINUUM, the world, the workers within the world and the labor of making the film itself are equated through montage and a brilliantly concentrated filmic "painterliness." The result is an experimental film which is at the same time a document of propaganda in the sense that at its...Watch Movie
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Line of Fire
In November of 1993, director Dominic Angerame was diagnosed with coronary arterial disease. A subsequent angiogram revealed that open heart surgery was necessary. The angiogram was filmed originally on 35mm motion picture film. Two years later, in March of 1995, his apartment burned down in the...Watch Movie
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Deconstruction Sight
Longtime San Francisco filmmaker Dominic Angerame turns the classical city symphony on its head by focusing on demolition rather than forward-progress. Filmed in the aftermath of the Loma Prieta earthquake, DECONSTRUCTION SIGHT plays like an avant-garde disaster movie, an...Watch Movie
